"Do I know you?"I held out my hand. "Hi, I'm Tony Sims." Tony Sims." He repeated, ignoring my hand. "I think it's time for you to go." Honey, Tony was...staying for dinner," Darlene's mom said from the kitchen."I see." He obviously wasn't thrilled about the idea.I stood. "That's okay, I'll take off." I stepped around him and headed toward the door. "Darlene, it's been fun."As I was closing the door, I heard the words 'cheap shots'. Evidently Dad was telling Mom why I was persona non grata.Mental. Vo makan hamara nahi tha. Papa ne kiraye par rakha tha. Jab se Bhabubhai se chudai kepath padhe tabse mai har aurat aur ladki ko sex ke najariye se hi dekhata aur meri himmat bi khul gai thi. Hamare makan ki malkan widhava thi. Inski Char betiya jisme ek ki shadi hui thi. Dusri bhag gai thi aur baki do padh rahi thi. Usme ek this Bharat jo college ke dusare saal me thi aur mai SSC me tha. Vo khub padhati thi aur sab cram kar ke yad karti thi. Mai bi padhane me aage tha to usko mujse thodi. .. I'd been throughall this with her, and she hadn't believed me then. I had to movethings along. "But whatever... So, how did you do it?"She smiled evilly, feeling that she once again had the upper hand."Magic, of course," she declared, waiting for my reaction.This was the part where I was supposed to espouse my disbelief. But I'dseen enough in the past two days to convince me otherwise. I had nodesire to indulge her script. "Obviously... but what was it? A spell?Some sort of amulet or. Don’t you think he should know that?”“No, and please don’t tell him. I don’t want to deny him something he wants this bad. I think he deserves it, he’s earned it. Don’t you?”“Yeah, I guess I do.”She had me there. It’s funny how this girl with her simplistic view had summed it all up. Dave had a chance here at something he’d always wanted and neither of us had the heart to tell him not to take it. It didn’t matter that this was all a publicity ploy, a fat payday for Wade, or anything else; it.